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Jerusalem Hour

Yehuda Amichai
in Memoriam (1924-2000)

Toward the earth
a night watchman
feels along at the wall
like an angel
you hear the eternal
and echoes of childhood
memories are fringes
in our eyes
covering the earth
with salty rain.